So I decided to really kick my week off with a little excitement. I got dropped off early morning at school, spent an hour in the library then headed off to my first class, history. I think the class is going to be tough, but hopefully interesting. It's ironic, shes my same teacher for both history and arabic. Hopefully we get along well. :P
Well then, I went into my macroeconomics class and was feeling a bit tired. Mom had told me last week I was looking pale but I hadn't really thought anything about it. So I was sitting in there and felt like I was about to doze off but would somehow manage to stay awake. Well then I felt one of my absence seizures coming on. So rather than try to fight it off and feel even more tired, I decided to let it run it's course, be over in less than a minute and then I'd be fine. Well, little did I know that I wouldn't come out of it but instead go into a full blown seizure. When I "came to" I thought I had fallen asleep. This girl was holding my arms though I couldn't identify her. A bunch of people were standing around me but it really didn't dawn on me why that was. So then I had another one. No warning this time, just came. I "woke up" to find the paramedics standing next to me saying my name. "Leah, Leah, are you ok? Hi, how are you feeling?" I was so horribly confused, I had no idea why there were there. I thought I had fallen asleep and I wake up to paramedics. Yeah, something didn't quite add up!
So they asked me if I could get up, they were going to take me to the hospital. Once I stood up I felt the uneasiness in my legs and how heavy my body suddenly felt. I made it to the bed and thats when it all started to make sense. I don't know if my breathing was labored or what but they put the oxygen mask on me, buckled me onto the stretcher thing, and started wheeling me out of class. It was kind of embarassing once we got into the hall with all the students staring at me. They then loaded me into the ambulance, turned on the sirens, and started towards the hospital. While in there they took a few blood samples and kept talking to me, I think mainly to make my brain keep working. I was taken to the emergency room where another nurse took some blood samples. I was given lunch by another nurse, real nice guy, and it was actually pretty good. I used the phone to call my mom at work and then she drove down. I missed my arabic class but my headache was tolerable after a couple advil and food. So I decided to go back so I could attend my german class. I made it through fine but once I got home, I was absolutely exhausted. I laid down on the couch and that was it, I fell asleep for the next several hours. Then I was able to sleep in the next day for a while because I didn't have classes.
We have no idea why the seizures hit, especially three of them. I chewed up my tongue nicely, it's nearly healed now. So I called my doctor in Columbus to tell him what happened. I was on my medication but said I need something else to take along with it because obviously, it's not doing the trick. He asked me why I didn't just try to find a doctor near me that would be easier to get in contact with and visit if need be. I simply told him that he knew my entire history, he was the one to actually discover I had a seizure disorder, no other doctor seemed to know and believe me, I'd seen a lot. He just laughed and said ok then said he was going to order another prescription and we'd see how it went. I'm hoping this might be the right combination of drugs. I took them last night around midnight and then didn't take them until I got up this morning around 10. I was actually standing at the counter and I could feel one coming on. I started fighting it off and grabbed my pill bottles. I took out my dosage and quickly downed them. So nothing happened, no partial seizure or anything. I felt a little tired for 5 or so minutes afterwards but that's normal for me. It doesn't seem like much when someone is watching me have a partial but it takes so much energy to fight one. Thats why usually I let one run it's course and just be done with it. However, I was so scared it might turn into something more that I wasn't going to risk it. So my first day and I'm wheeled out by the paramedics. lol Hopefully it'll be a one time thing. ;)
